VB Forum / General / October 2005

Any suggestions on the best place to get a cheap copy of VB 6.0?  If so,
should I get Enterprise edition or Professional, etc. and how much should I
expect to pay?

OS=Windows XP Professional, VB6 Enterprise Edition
I have tried several examples of code (from this BBS and others) using the
API SHFILEOPERATION.
On my system, I have the following drives: A, C, D, E, F, and G. Drives F

Is there any way to refresh COMM control without unloading and reloading the
form?
The code snippet currently used is below.
Option Explicit

Form_MouseDown is not activated when I click on form's edge to resize it.
(Form_MouseUp is also not when I release the mouse button)
Which event can be used for that?
I want to stop screen from flickering when resizing the form.

We have multiple customized toolbars for the VB6 IDE.  DOes anyone
know where they are stored so we can coy them simply to other machines
instead of recreating them?

vb6 (sp6)  & SQl 200 (sp3)
im running the following code in order to try and track down a problem
oPKG.LoadFromSQLServer ServerName:=sServer,
Flags:=DTSSQLStgFlag_UseTrustedConnection, PackageName:=sPackageName

I have a VB application which runs continously on a desk top and "looks" in
the inbox of the Outlook account and then performs a task depending on the
Subject of the E-Mail.  If I VNC to that desk to and am "logged" on to that
account everything works well.  However, if I "lock" ...

When I use PRINT to write to a file, it takes up CPU. Is there any way to
write to a file without using a lot of CPU ?
Thanks.
Open App.Path & "\Log.txt" For Append As #1

I have a problem with a small jpeg image within a Scrollbar & PictureBox
'viewport' setup (as the VB Help file calls it) not being repainted in
response to a scrollbar event. I used a machine running XP SP2 to develop
this ap. It now functions properly on machines running:

how to find the maximum  rows that are visible
corresponding to the flexgrid height

I am using CommonDialog1 control in my project. In properties i changed
the Dialog Title to "Choose Picture". Is it possible to open only JPG
or GIF Format files. I tried to edit Filter property to .jpg but i
didn't get the result what may be the problem. Can anyone please help

I have a VB program that automatically running (in minimize), let us call it
DataLog.exe when I open my main program. DataLog.exe will to the data logging
function and store it in database (Access).
My problem is, every day this DataLog.exe is shutdown by unknown causes.

Couple kind members gave me couple APIs with functions
to detect wide characters such as Chinese and Arabic.
The problem is that VB reads these file names as
example:  ????? ????.url

Just noticed a whole gob of .obj files magically deposited in one of my
working folders a few days ago?
Is that trash left over from when i was crashing all over the place due to a
bad api declare?

I have the following problem that i am trying to get a "clean" solution
*before* my code becomes totally spaghetti. I'll try to describe it:
Not giving too many details, i have a set of parameters (temperature,
pressure, etc.) and various things associated with them in a tabular